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From New York Times bestselling author, one of Americas top cultural critics ( Entertainment Weekly ), and The Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine, comes a new book of all original pieces on villains and villainy in popular culture. Chuck Klosterman has walked into the darkness. As a child, he rooted for conventionally good characters like wide-eyed Luke Skywalker in Star Wars . But as Klosterman aged, his alliances shiftedfirst to Han Solo and then to Darth Vader. Vader was a hero who consciously embraced evil; Vader wanted to be bad. But what, exactly, was that supposed to mean? When we classify someone as a bad person, what are we really saying (and why are we so obsessed with saying it)? In I Wear the Black Hat , Klosterman questions the very nature of how modern people understand the culture of villainy. What was so Machiavellian about Machiavelli? Why dont we see Batman the same way we see Bernhard Goetz? Whos more worthy of our vitriolBill Clinton or Don Henley? What was O.J. Simpsons second-worst decision? And why is Klosterman still obsessed with some kid he knew for one week in 1985? Masterfully blending cultural analysis with self-interrogation and limit

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Author

Klosterman, Chuck

Publisher

Simon & Schuster; Scribner

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439184516

Category

humor

Subjects

Literary Collections, Memoir, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (5,779 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14